Joining Forces to Seed Transformative Brain Research

Joining Forces to Seed Transformative Brain Research

Six researchers from UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created a “one-of-a-kind collaboration among the three institutions in which each put up $1.5 million over three years to seed innovative but risky research.”

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“Called BRAINseed, the partnership could yield discoveries that accelerate President Barack Obama’s national BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative and California’s own Cal-BRAIN Initiative.

“It’s clear to everybody that any attempt to understand how the brain works, or ultimately what we might mean by cognition, is so daunting and so large that no one institution could hope to be a stand-alone leader in such an effort,” said Graham Fleming, UC Berkeley vice chancellor for research. “The synergies between UCSF, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and UC Berkeley are very strong, and we complement one another in very effective ways.”